This is one of the most fantastic ELI5 videos I have done. Cover multiple AL technologies, from reports, over temp blobs, streams and emails with a sprinkle of RecordRefs added. Check it out:
Tag Archives: Report
How to validate report selections in Business Central
Recently I had to validate some filter selections on a report in Business Central and found out it was not so straight forward to do. What happened when using the trigger OnPreDataItem() or trigger OnPreReport() triggers was that I was able to validate the filter selections by user but the user experience was not optimal since the selection page closed when the validation error occured.
Report extension’s tips and tricks
Probably, most of you have already encountered the report extension object to add desired modifications to the standard report in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Depending on the complexity of your cases, you may have come across a number of implementation restrictions in the extension. In this article, we will review solutions to some simple restriction cases in report extensions and provide you with a few valuable tips in the process.
Dynamics 365 Business Central: Report Selection for standard documents (Set up default reports)
Today I would like to talk about how to set up default reports to use to print documents (Report Selection for standard documents) in Business Central.
Building an alternative to RDL, genius or madness?
I have never been a fan of RDL reporting. The process and tools are not intuitive or enable me to build what I need. Lately, I have been thinking about a new way of doing this, and in this video, I demo a prototype I built over the weekend of a new report layout engine. Check it out:
Dynamics 365 Business Central: How to specify the report layout before printing via AL (“Report Layout List 2000000234” not “Custom Report Layout 9650”)
Today I would like to talk about how to specify the report layout (“Report Layout List 2000000234”) before printing in AL. A few days ago, a partner asked me an interesting question, the customer wants to print different report layouts according to different conditions in the sales order, but the report is the same. Is there a way to deal with it?
ReportExtensions, it was supposed to be so good?
We all joined the choir praising ReportExtensions when we finally got that feature, but after a few versions with ReportExtension, many have realized that it’s not all rainbows and unicorns. There’s an issue when extending a lot of reports. Check out the video: